Spontaneous coronary artery dissection and acute myocardial infarction during pregnancy

Hellenic Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 74-80

  Vogiatzis, Ioannis ^a   Hadjimiltiades, Stavros ^a   Sachpekidis, Vasilios ^a   Parcharidis, Georgios ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Coronary artery dissection; Myocardial infarction; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIURETIC AGENT; HEPARIN; METOPROLOL; MORPHINE; NITRATE; THALLIUM 201;

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CRYSTALLOID; ECG ABNORMALITY; FEMALE; HEART MURMUR; HUMAN; PREGNANCY; SPONTANEOUS CORONARY ARTERY DISSECTION; THORAX PAIN; THORAX SCINTISCANNING; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR;

EID: 77349106965     PISSN: 10117970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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